{"id":236988,"date":"2025-07-04T08:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T08:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/236988\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T08:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T08:55:09","slug":"duncan-scott-receives-obe-from-king-charles-at-ceremony-in-edinburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/236988\/","title":{"rendered":"Duncan Scott Receives OBE From King Charles At Ceremony In Edinburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\tDuncan Scott Receives OBE From King Charles At Ceremony In Edinburgh<\/p>\n<p>Double Olympic relay champion <strong>Duncan Scott<\/strong> received his OBE for services to swimming from King Charles at a ceremony in Edinburgh and described it as \u201ca very special moment for my family and me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Scott received his honours from the King at an investiture ceremony held at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in the Scottish capital.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old revealed that it wasn\u2019t their first meeting with the pair having met in 2017 when the then Prince Charles opened a pool in New Cumnock, a village in East Ayrshire.<\/p>\n<p>Since claiming 4\u00d72 silver with Team Scotland at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scott has won Olympic, world and European titles with a vast collection of silverware.<\/p>\n<p>He became Scotland\u2019s most-decorated Olympian at <strong>Paris 2024<\/strong> when an historic gold with the men\u2019s 4\u00d72 relay and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/paris-olympics-day-7-finals-leon-marchand-dominates-200-im-final-for-fourth-gold-scares-world-record-with-154-06\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">second straight 200IM<\/a> silver took to eight his Olympic medal haul, one more than cyclist\u00a0<strong>Sir Chris Hoy.\u00a0<\/strong>Scott\u2019s haul across three consecutive Games at Rio 2016, Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024 comprises two golds and six silvers.<\/p>\n<p>His OBE (Order of the British Empire) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/duncan-scott-awarded-obe-in-new-years-honours-list\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was announced in the New Year\u2019s Honours List<\/a> and follows the award of an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in 2021. The honours recognise outstanding achievement or service to the community.<\/p>\n<p>Scott posted on social media, saying: \u201cOBE \ud83c\udf96\ufe0f A very special moment for my family and me \ud83e\udec2 Thank you for the lovely messages \ud83d\udc9c Incredibly humbling being recognised for what I do and love. Too many more years of services to swimming \ud83e\udee1\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Described by 4\u00d72 teammate and fellow Olympic champion <strong>James Guy<\/strong> as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/duncan-scott-wins-200-free-for-third-title-of-meet-as-james-guy-hails-a-skinnier-version-of-michael-phelps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a skinnier version of Michael Phelps<\/a>,\u201d the regard in which Scott is held by the swimming community was reflected in the congratulations offered to him on social media. Among those to respond were triple Olympic champion <strong>Ranomi Kromowidjojo<\/strong>, nine-time Olympic medallist <strong>Kyle Chalmers<\/strong> and <strong>Cate Campbell<\/strong> and <strong>Ariarne Titmus<\/strong> who share eight Games titles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Duncan Scott\u2019s Roll Call<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Olympic Games: Two golds, six silvers<\/p>\n<p>World Championships: Four golds, two silvers, three bronzes<\/p>\n<p>European Championships (long-course): Seven golds, four silvers<\/p>\n<p>European Championships: (short-course): Two golds, two silvers, two bronzes<\/p>\n<p>Commonwealth Games: Three golds, two silvers, eight bronzes<\/p>\n<p>Up next for Scott are the World Championships in Singapore. It\u2019s 10 years since the Scot made his worlds debut in Kazan, Russia, where he anchored the British quartet in the heats of the 4\u00d72 before being replaced in the final by Guy who steered them to victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Duncan Scott Receives OBE From King Charles At Ceremony In Edinburgh Double Olympic relay champion Duncan Scott received&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,92429,7730,7731,92430,92431,1760,92432,92433,92434,92435,7710,519],"class_list":{"0":"post-236988","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-cate-campbell","10":"tag-charles","11":"tag-charles-iii","12":"tag-duncan-scott","13":"tag-james-guy","14":"tag-king-charles","15":"tag-kyle-chalmers","16":"tag-michael-phelps","17":"tag-paris-2024","18":"tag-ranomi-kromowidjojo","19":"tag-royal-families","20":"tag-royal-family"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114794130576416481","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}